IBM has opened a new datacentre based in Germany, designed to drive enterprise level uptake of social business technology as businesses increasingly turn to cloud based infrastructure.

The new European Data Centre will provide users with email services, remote meeting capabilities and IM services.

The new data centre will provide services to users throughout Europe as well as international locations including Africa and the Middle East, adding to IBM's global output, with centres located in the Asian pacific and the North Americas.

IBM social business general manager Alistair Rennie described how the new centre is aimed at, “strengthening our ability to meet the needs for businesses seeking security-rich, flexible cloud environments that let them unleash innovation and drive a smart enterprise".

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